Christin Khan is currently flying for the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center right whale aerial survey team based out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has previously led right whale aerial surveys with Wildlife Trust and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Christin completed her Master of Science in Biology at San Francisco State University with research on vocal development in harbor seals; her work was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Mid-Atlantic Aerial Surveys - Day Five

Today was a very successful aerial survey in Long Island Sound and south to Atlantic City, New Jersey. We documented many species including loggerhead turtles, green turtles, Ridley turtles, leatherback turtle, bottlenose dolphins, basking sharks, ocean sunfish, and even a hammerhead shark!